Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumGuns kill less people every year than the number of unique spider species known to man!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider
Guns kill about 30,000 Americans every year. But there are 40,000 different species of spider! That means you can assign a spider species to each gun violence victim and you'd still have 10,000 left over!!!!
Therefore, gun violence is no big deal!
Skinner
(63,645 posts)And in the re-telling it is going to become "guns kill fewer people than spiders do."
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Changed the title, hope that helps. For the record, this OP is a parody of another recent OP in the guns forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/117236534
ashling
(25,771 posts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"I'm going to get me a spidee" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ain't no dadblamed spider gettin' past me, no siree!
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,380 posts)both are manufactured.
both are weapons.
On another note, there are more people killed by swimming pools each year than there are subspecies of elephant. Maybe there's a statistical correlation in there somewhere.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)....it's sad how much sophistry is placed into defending guns. Trash is then part of nature, so lets litter more...
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)With spiders than guns. I found one walking on my bed the other morning. Did I kill it? No I did not. I put him in cellophane wrapper from my cigarettes, he crawled in, and I took him outside. Spiders are good too. I also have one under our sink cabinet in the bathroom. He harms no one, so I don't harm him. Spiders catch unwanted bugs too.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)...for comparison, i.e. terrestrial arthropods? That's like saying "guns kill fewer people than there are grains of sand at the beach!"
How's this for comparison instead? If gun violence kills 30,000 Americans annually, that's SIX TIMES MORE than all the species of mammals in the world (about 5000, give or take). It's nearly FIVE TIMES the number of amphibian species worldwide (about 6500). It's three times as many as all the bird species on Earth (just under 10,000). It's about the same as all the fish species on Earth, the vertebrate group that has been diversifying the longest-- so gun violence kills as many Americans EVERY YEAR as the number of extant fish species it has taken 500 million years to evolve, LOL.
on edit-- math....
provis99
(13,062 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)2on2u
(1,843 posts)than there are stars in the sky. This is one of those... please don't take it seriously.
hack89
(39,171 posts)a lot less than Japanese baths I would bet.
Wicked, but funny, fail.
Johnny Rico
(1,438 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)Callisto32
(2,997 posts)Fewer people.
rl6214
(8,142 posts)Edit. Damn. Beaten to the punch.
Like little fishhooks in my eyes, these things are.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)except the one I carry and I keep it under control not running free and engaging in rudeness.
lastlib
(23,366 posts)Guns Kill. Period. End of Discussion.
hack89
(39,171 posts)I bet you routinely use or come into contact with many of them on a daily basis.